HÀ NỘI Vietnamese shares fell on Friday, ending a three-day rise, as investors continued seeking short-term profits on the last day of exchange-traded funds’ review.

The benchmark VN-Index on the Hồ Chí Minh Stock Exchange edged down 0.43 per cent to close at 1,004.12 points.

The southern market index had gained total 2.41 per cent in the previous three trading days and climbed above the milestone of 1,000 points.

For the whole week, the VN-Index gained total 1.91 per cent.

More than 250.2 million shares were traded on the southern bourse, worth nearly VNĐ6.5 trillion (US$279.5 million).

The figures were up 11.5 per cent in volume and 35 per cent in value from Thursday’s numbers as the two exchange-traded funds (ETFs) – FTSE Vietnam ETF and VNM ETF – tried to finish their quarterly portfolio reviews in the last minutes of Friday session.

Two realty firms – Vinhomes (VHM) and Vingroup (VIC) – were down 0.7 per cent and 0.1 per cent as the two ETFs decided to unload an amount of the companies’ shares from their portfolios.